Surprise!

[Verse 1]

Once the gatekeepers decided

We would fade into the crowd

You took what makes you charming

And you turned it up too loud

Now how many songs does the band have to get through

Before you steal away the mic?

How many cakes do you have to jump out of

Before no one yells "surprise"?

[Verse 2]

I remember us both learning

That no one's dreams come true

They're either not quite how you saw them

Or the goalpost just gets moved

That's when you changed your expectations

And started rolling your third eye

But you still don't know the ending

You can't spoil the surprise

[Verse 3]

And now the nature of your birthday parties

Changed a lot for me

What was once a celebration

Feels like a shameless victory

I guess we all confuse our happiness

With what it takes to just survive

But the moment that the switch gets flipped

Is always a surprise

[Verse 4]

There's a little bit of poetry

In what you're doing to your face

Removing all the evidence

Of our shared time and space

But your eyes close when you smile now

Because you're squeezing it too tight

If this is how you double down

You're in for a surprise

[Verse 5]

There's a nightclub deep in Hollywood

For each night of the week

Watching all my fake friends congregate

Where no one wants to be

But you have to muddle through it

If you wanna make it out alive

And the ones that find the other side

Are in for a surprise

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]

No, I'm not letting myself off easy here

I've been going through it too

I might've leaned into things more gracefully

But what good did that do?

You found your way to rage

Against the dying of the light

I thought I planned for all contingencies

I thought I knew who I was meant to be

All those roads laid out in front of me

But it's still a big surprise